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>> I'M GOING TO CALL YOU WHEN TO
COME OUTSIDE.
I'M COMING THROUGH MALIBU.
REPORTER: IF YOU RECOGNIZE THAT
VOICE, INVESTIGATORS SAY YOU MAY
RECOGNIZE A KILLER.
LISTEN AGAIN AS THE PERSON SETS
UP A MEETING WITH DEQUAN ROZIER.
>> YOU WANT TO MEET ME AT THE
OFFICE?
REPORTER: IT'S THE LAST PHONE
CONVERSATION INVESTIGATORS THINK
DEQUAN WOULD EVER HAVE.
MOMENTS LATER HE WAS GONE.
SHOT AND KILLED, HELD BY HIS
MOTHER IN HIS FINAL MOMENTS.
>> HE WAS TRYING TO TALK TO WAS
WITH BLOOD IN HIS MOUTH AND
TEARS IN HIS EYES.
THIS WAS ALL WHILE HIS LITTLE
BROTHER WAS TRYING TO GIVE HIM
CPR.
IT WASN'T REAL.
REPORTER: ORLANDO POLICE BELIEVE
DEQUAN WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF A
DRUG DEAL.
HOWEVER, DEQUAN USED AN APP ON
HIS PHONE TO RECORD ALL OF HIS
CONVERSATIONS, INCLUDING THAT
LAST CONVERSATION WITH THE
PERSON WHO INVESTIGATORS THINK
KILLED HIM OR AT LEAST KNOWS WHO
DID.
IT MAY BE THE KEY TO SOLVING HIS
MURDER.
>> MY SON MADE SOME BAD
DECISIONS, BUT HE DIDN'T DESERVE
TO DIE.
I JUST WANT JUSTICE.
I DON'T WANT STREET JUSTICE.
I JUST WANT THEM TO LOOK ME IN
MY EYE AND TELL ME WHY THEY TOOK
MY BABY.
REPORTER: AND EVEN THOUGH IT'S
BEEN A YEAR SINCE DEQUAN HAS
BEEN GONE, HE IS FAR FROM
FORGOTTEN.
HIS MOM WEARS A NECKLACE WITH
SOME OF HIS ASHES AROUND HER
NECK.
HIS PICTURES ADORN THE WALLS OF
HER HOME.
>> I DON'T SLEEP WELL
I GET OUT OF BED.
THE LOSS OF THAT ONE CHILD.
I HAVE FOUR CHILDREN.
NO PARENT SHOULD HAVE TO BURY A
CHIL
IT IS HEARTBREAKING.
REPORTER: INVESTIGATORS ARE
ASKING FOR ANYONE WITH
INFORMATION TO COME FORWARD AND

It's been one year since Dequan Rozier was gunned down outside his mother's home.

In that one year, his family has had to deal with his loss while knowing the person or persons responsible for killing him remain on the loose.

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But investigators are hoping a never-before-aired piece of evidence will help them catch the killer.

"I'm going to call you when to come outside. I'm coming through Malibu," a person is heard saying on a recording released by police.

Police believe that voice could be the killer.

"You want to meet me at the office?" the person said.

It's the last phone conversation investigators think Rozier would ever have. Moments later, he was shot and killed, held by his mother in his final moments.

"... He's trying to talk to us with blood in his mouth and tears in his eyes. All while his little brother is trying to give him CPR. It wasn't real," said Tyreshia Brown, Rozier's mother.

Orlando police believe Rozier was in the middle of a drug deal. However, he used an app on his phone to record all of his conversations, including that last conversation with the person who investigators think killed him.

It may be the key to solving his murder, they said.

"My son made some bad decisions, but he didn't deserve to die. I just want justice. I don't want street justice. I just want them to look me in my eye and tell me why they took my baby," Brown said.

Although it has been one year that Rozier has been gone, he is far from forgotten. His mother wears a necklace with some of his ashes.

His pictures adorn the walls of her home.

"I don't sleep well. I get out of bed. The loss of that one child. I have four children; no parent should have to bury a child. It's heartbreaking," Brown said.

Investigators are asking for anyone with information to come forward and they could be eligible for a $5,000 reward.